@eleceng Pic the server setup with the cover open, the motherboard, the motherboard's make and model, and the power supply make and model.

We've been building servers for eons. We may have a compatible PSU sitting in our bin or at least be able to indicate what to get from auction site(s).

As far as activation goes, does Safe Mode work?

EDIT: Boot the VM to Server 2003 .ISO --> Recover --> CMD --> slgmr /rearm [ENTER].

@eleceng said in Best Dedup Software:

Any opinions on the dedupe software and the search software r appliance?

For this kind of thing, you don't need software for a couple reasons. One is that you need to manually maintain the master file system for them to share. And second because you can just write a script that compares checksums and lists the master list of files for you to store. No need for software as the OS can already do this.

You can also run the Veeam ENdpoint agent on the VMs and run the backups.

@travisdh1 said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?:

@scottalanmiller said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?:

@eleceng said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?:

@scottalanmiller Yes I meant Reseller / VAR

Then definitely DCW. I told them to watch this thread.

Was that supposed to be CDW?

No, what crazy person would recommend them?